This makes me suspect there is even more to this (amazing!) story: > Their saga is somewhat incomprehensible, not least because it’s eventually conveyed in two

This makes me suspect there is even more to this (amazing!) story: > Their saga is somewhat incomprehensible, not least because it’s eventually conveyed in two separate movies, intended to be screened either by alternating scenes from one of the film with scenes from the other, or by projecting them on two screens simultaneously. It concludes with Billy realizing he’s not living in 2014, as he once thought, but is actually somehow in 1914. That's from Burroughs's work, which was based off of Nourse's. But that idea of two parallel times - of someone living in more than one time - is such a hallmark of Philip K. Dick's later work that I can't help but wonder if Borroughs was inspired by PKD. The timeline fits: Borroughs wrote this in the late 70's, and PKD's experience that led to his obsession with parallel times was in 1974 [1], and his first published work inspired by it was that same year. If Borroughs was inspired by PKD, that's another weird coincidence in this chain of events. If he wasn't that's maybe even more of a coincidence actually. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Paranormal_experiences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Paranormal_expe...